Tusk vs Tsk - What's the difference?
tusk | tsk |
One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
A tusk shell.
(carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth .
As verbs the difference between tusk and tsk
is that tusk is to dig up using a tusk, as boars do while tsk is to make a tsk sound of disapproval.As a noun tusk
is one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.As an interjection tsk is
an exclamation of disapproval.tusk
English
(wikipedia tusk)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tusk (also tux, tusch), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
